The Old Opera House Theatre Company's Up The Down Staircase & Snow White Tix Now On Sale

The Old Opera House Theatre Company announces 2009 Summer Youth Program, tickets are on now on sale for two exciting plays, performed by some of the area's most talented young actors
$8.00 Children & Students $12.00 Adults. Call the Old Opera House box-office at (304) 725-4420 for reservations.

Up The Down Staircase

Comedy by Christopher Sergel, from the book by Bel Kaufman
Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm, Saturday, July 25 at 7:30pm & Sunday, July 26 at 2:30pm

Based on Bel Kaufman's 1965 hit novel, Up the Down Staircase is the story of a young idealistic teacher's challenging and frustrating first semester at an inner-city high school. Fighting to keep her head above a flood of student challenges and a mountain of bureaucracy and paperwork, young Silvia Barrett learns that teaching requires more skills than are taught in a college classroom. Silvia's unfaltering compassion for her students quickly separates her from her hardened and battle-fatigued colleagues. Will she survive and will her students reach the ideals that Miss Barrett believes they are capable of, or will she simply succumb to the battlefield that we know as the high school classroom? In Miss Barrett's class everyone has a voice and in the end we are left with the question, is it the students or their teacher that learn the greatest lesson? Directed by Christine Brewer, this comedy has a seasoned cast of young performers including Katie Burson, Nicholas Butcher, Paul Cabell, Warren Campbell, Ashlyn Anne Courtney, Troy Crossley, Dena DeSimone, Chelsea Dicus, Kaitlyn Dykes, Marissa Gonzalez, Ciara Hall, Katee Hayslip, Gabi Hornich, Lindsey Jennings, Kait Layman, Andrew Leach, Meredith Levy, Caitlin Louden, Rob Madden, Alex Moore, Alora Ray, Emily Reinhardt, Jesse Robinson, Abby Rogers, Alecia Schulz, Tony Shipman, Jamie Evette Sullivan and Allyna Wilson.

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs 

Adapted from the Tale by Brothers Grimm by Judith Baker Kase
Thursday, July 23 at 7:30pm & Saturday, July 25 at 2:30pm

This is not the "mouse's" version that you are familiar with, but you will find all the enchantment that you have come to expect in this classic fairytale. Add in a prince who is forced to play the Court Jester and speak every line in rhyme and a Royal Wizard who interprets everyone's phrases most literally and you have a magical twist on what you thought you knew. Directed by Ashley Snow this delightful presentation features a wonderful cast that includes Kayla France,
Austin Jon Gregoryk, Claire Lewis, Claire Mason, Ethan Mason, Zoë Nelson, Ian Michael Parker, Megan Fierro-Root, Zoey Marie Smith, Megan Snider and Vincent Vetese.

Tickets are on now on sale!!
$8.00 Children & Students $12.00 Adults
Call the Old Opera House box-office at
(304) 725-4420 for reservations

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